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Sometime in 2010, the German-based Satori
Quartet commissioned me to write a new piece that would use,
besides the four guitars, tuned bottles. Some of the quartet
members played, a decade earlier, another piece of mine
(Three Days With The Eastern Emperor) with the Youth
Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg (JGO). That too used tuned
bottles and they were keen to recreate the sound with their
quartet.

The bottles give the piece an eery sound which
underscores the story from a dream I had had prior to writing
this piece. In the dream, I was taken to a strange place by some
weird but friendly entities and I was shown around. Then the
dream abruptly ended leaving me to want to know more about this
place. The dream was so vivid that I couldn't stop thinking about
it for a couple of days.The five movements reflect this
journey.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 4 performance parts (23p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 10 min.

Contents note:

1. Out There -- 2. Gently Led by the Hand -- 3. Entering the Secret World -- 4. Too Many Mysteries -- 5. Epilogue: 'Left Without Answers'.

Commission info: Commissioned by Satori Quartet (Germany)

The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:tonal contemporary classical music - cinematic and mysterious-sounding in places